Since it seems to be necessary, I'll expand upon some of the advice below: > ... If you're inserting a photo > and you really want someone to see it, try covering all the bases > by *both* pasting it in and *also* pasting in a link...
OK, start by assuming that you can see the photo you're trying to paste in on another website, in another page of your browser. Use whatever procedure has worked for you in the past to click on that photo, copy it, and paste it into your new message. But then, because many people are not seeing these pasted-in photos, also add a direct URL to the photo. Back on the original website that contains your source photo (*not* the still-unsent FFL post), right- click (or its Mac counterpart) on the photo and select 'Copy Link Location'. Then return to your FFL post and paste the text from your Clipboard into the post, and then do whatever you normally have to do to make links clickable. This way you're "covering the bases" and providing two different ways to view the graphics, and at the same time not forcing the rest of us to go through endless iterations of "Baaaw...my graphic didn't show up" conversations. I'm suggesting that, given the current state of Yahoo, it's safest to assume that your pasted-in graphics are *not* going to show up, and thus to provide an alternative method for people to see them. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > s3raphitasez: > > > > OK - the picture didn't copy over - so please use the link. > > Does anyone know why it is that though when I copied the image > > into my post - and could see it had successfully made it - when it > > appeared in FFL there was nothing there? > > For your information, I could see it just fine, on the Yahoo Groups > web viewer, in your first post. Then again, I don't know whether > you are posting from the "upgraded" Neo, or the older "classic" > interface, and I'm still on the old one. Yahoo still hasn't had the > balls to force people in France to use Neo yet. > > I don't think there is any way to predict what is going to show up > in terms of clickable links or pasted-in photos at this point. There > are simply too many variables. Some FFL readers are on one version > of Neo, some are on another, still others (like me) are still on the > old "classically bad" interface, which doesn't even work as it used > to. Sometimes when I reply it quotes text, other times (like now) > it doesn't, and I have to paste in what I'm replying to manually. > > It's just the nature of Yahoo, and Web-based apps. Yahoo has many > servers all over the world, and it doesn't roll out the same version > of software to all of them simultaneously. It rolls them out selec- > tively, to "test audiences," so that it can filter their complaints > geographically and use their own users as beta testers, instead > of paying for QA. > > There doesn't seem to be much we can do about it, so my advice > is to just "post and hope for the best." If you're inserting a photo > and you really want someone to see it, try covering all the bases > by *both* pasting it in and *also* pasting in a link, as you did. I've > done that below with the same photo you posted. This is coming > from my version of the old Yahoo Groups interface. I'd be willing > to bet that when I look at it on the Yahoo website, I'll both be able > to see the photo, and that the link will be clickable. But I'll also > bet that this will not be true for others here. > > So it goes. It's like dealing with the caprice of the TM movement. > One day entering a building through a South-facing doorway is > cool, and normal, and the next it's the worst thing you could > possibly do, and will fuck up your karma forever. :-) > > > http://tinyurl.com/qgfb3nq > > [Amelie and Elliott next to a body outside Westgate Shopping Mall in > Nairobi] >
